An Apology for the Army Electronic Resource in a Short Essay On Fortitude
An Apology for the Army Electronic Resource in a Short Essay On Fortitude
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
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Officers under the grcateft Apprehenfions imaginable. :, daily expecting Mutinies, Defertion, a total Difianding^ Robberies, . Sacrilege, and indeed all defperate Violences that Men driven to Ex- tremities are capable of. To obviate, thefe Mifchiefs, if pofliblc •, no Care, no Expedient was omittqd j the general Officers and Colo- nels, borrow'd upon their own private Cre- dit what Money they toijld, in their, feverai Quarters ) and with thefe filial 1 Sums . (tho* Witjl much Difficulty) for a ...while fuppprted their Regiments. • . R '. '•. ■■. Pillage our Quarters, raife the-.. Coun- F 2 try ( 4° ) try upon us, and fo find our felves cnclofed between the French and Miquelets ? Or were we to. Affemble without Bread, without Car- riages^ without * Sub/iflance, or a Fallibility of procuring any ? if none of thefe Mea- sures were advifeable, there remained but one Expedient to difengage us : And that was frankly tofacrifice the Marefchal de Stareni- bero-^ with his Imperial Troops, the Dutch and our own Palatines (a Panel of Foreigners!) and make an Honourable Stipulation for our own March home through France ; which, no doubt, had been granted us, for fo va- luable a ■ Con}- deration, as our reiigntng all Spain, without further Trouble or Flood- fied.
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